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Fidel Castro

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by Volker Skierka

http://afrocubaweb.com/acoutacw.htm Website on Afro-Cuban culture

  http://www.nacub.org/ Homepage of Cuba’s Catholic Church

  http://www.amnesty.org/ Amnesty International

  http://www.cubanet.org/ Reports by dissident journalists and international agencies

  http://www.herald.org/ Homepage of the Miami Herald

  http://www.cubainfo.de/ Cuban Tourist Office, Frankfurt

  http://www.lanic.utexas.edu/la/cb/cuba Current web link for the Latin America Information Center of the University of Texas

  http://www.state.gov/www/regions/wha/cuba/index.html Cuba page of the US State Department

  http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/cu.html World factbook of the Central Intelligence Agency, Cuba section

  http://www.latinworld.com/caribe/index.html Latin America search engine for Caribbean

  http://www.carilat.de German-based information and news about the Caribbean and Latin America

  http://www.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/IIK/ Institut für Iberoamerika-Kunde, Hamburg

  http://www.fu-berlin.de/lai/ Latin America Institute of the Free University, Berlin

  http://www.irela.org/es/index.asp Instituto de Relaciones Europeos Latinoamericanas

  12 Author’s website and e-mail address

  http://www.skierka.de

  castro@skierka.de

  Index

  Note: FC denotes Fidel Castro

  AAWH

  Abalkin, Leonid

  Abrantes, José

  Acción Radical Ortodoxo (ARO)

  ADN News Agency

  Adzhubei, Alexei

  Afghanistan

  Africa

  African, Caribbean and Pacific states (ACP)

  Afro-Cuban religions

  Agramonte, Roberto

  agriculture: reform; diversification; self-sufficiency drive (1990s); see also private farmers’ markets; sugar

  Agrupación Católica

  Alarcón, Ricardo

  Alegría del Pío

  Alekseev, Aleksandr

  Alerta

  Algeria

  Allende, Salvador

  Almeida, Juan

  Alpha

  Álvarez Barragano, José

  Álvaro Bremer, Alejandro

  American Association for World Health (AAWH)

  American Studies Center (Centro de Estudios sobre América – CEA)

  Amnesty International

  Amparo

  Anastasio, Albert “Butcher”

  Anderson, John Lee

  Anderson, Rudolph, Jr

  Andropov, Yuri

  Angola

  Aquí la Iglesia (Here is the Church)

  Aragónes, Emilio

  Arbenz Guzmán, Jácobo

  Arcos, Gustavo

  Argentina

  Argote, María Luisa

  Arrufat, Antón

  Arteaga y Betancourt, Manuel, Cardinal

  Artimé, Manuel

  Association of Caribbean States (ACS)

  Attwood, William

  Authentic Revolutionary Party of Cuba (Auténticos)

  Axen, Hermann

  Aznar, José María

  Baader-Meinhof terrorist group

  Bacardi rum company

  Baker, James

  Balfour, Sebastian

  Balzac, Honoré de

  Banes

  Barbara, damage to

  Barbeito, Francisco

  Barker, Bernard

  Barnet, Miguel

  Barquín, Ramón

  Barrientos, René

  Batista y Zaldívar, Fulgencio, Plate 10; FC’s opposition, guerrilla warfare against; attack by Echeverría (1957); resignation and flight; trials of supporters of regime

  Bay of Pigs invasion (1961), used as propaganda

  Bayamó Barracks attack (1953)

  Bayo Giraud, Alberto

  Beauvoir, Simone de

  Belgium

  Ben Bella, Ahmed

  Betancourt, Rómulo

  Betto, Frei

  Bible

  bicycles

  biological weapons; FC rumored to be developing US accused of using

  biotechnology

  Birán

  Biryuzov, Sergei

  Bishop, Maurice

  Bissell, Richard

  black market

  Blanco Río, Manuel

  Bohemia

  Bolívar, Simon

  Bolivia

  Bonanno, Joe

  Bonne, Félix

  Bonsal, Philip W.

  Borge, Tomás

  Bosch, Juan

  Bosch, Orlando

  Boumedienne, Hoari

  Bourne, Peter G.

  BRAC (Bureau for the Suppression of Communist Subversion)

  Brazil xviii

  Brezhnev, Leonid

  Brigade 2506

  Brothers to the Rescue

  Buena Vista Social Club

  Bulgaria

  Bundy, McGeorge

  Bunke, Tamara “Tania”

  Bureau for Revolutionary Planning and Coordination

  Burlatsky, Fyodor

  Burton, Dan

  Bush, George

  Bush, George W

  Bush, Jeb

  Cabell, Charles P.

  Cabrera Infante, Guillermo

  Caesar, Julius

  “Cambio Cubano” (Cuban Change)

  Canada

  CANF see Cuban American National Foundation Cantillo, Eulogio

  capitalism

  Carazo, Rodrigo

  Cárdenas, Lázaro

  Caribbean

  Caribbean Forum

  CARICOM economic community

  Caritas

  Carpentier, Alejo

  Carranza Valdéz, Julio

  Carreras, Enrique

  Carter, Jimmy; visit to Cuba (2002)

  Casa de las Americas

  Cason, James

  Castañeda, Jorge G.

  Castro [y Argiz], Ángel (FC’s father), Plate

  Castro, Ángela (FC’s sister)

  Castro, Augustina (FC’s sister)

  Castro, Emma (FC’s sister)

  Castro, Fidel Alejandro

  LIFE EVENTS: birth; family life; baptism; education; early letter to President Roosevelt, Plate; first insurrection; Havana University; alleged assassination attempts by; joins PPC; marriage; opposition to Batista regime; divorce; exile in Mexico; fund-raising in US, Plate; guerrilla war against Batista regime, Plates; victory parade Plate; becomes prime minister; suspected of involvement in assassination of President Kennedy; becomes head of state; visits abroad as leader, (China Rome Plate UN, Plate UNESCO Plate, US, Plate, USSR,, Plate)

  PERSONALITY AND OPINIONS: appearance; baseball player; convinced of affinity between Christianity and Communism; on death and Cuba’s future; ethical values, health; influence of Catholicism; leadership style, leisure activities, Plate; love affairs; love of reading; and music; as orator, Plates; popularity with women Plate; portraits Plates; private life; religious beliefs; role; on socialism/Communism; survivor of assassination plots; understanding of democracy; understanding of human rights; as a winner

  Castro, Fidelito (FC’s son)

  Castro, Juana (FC’s sister)

  Castro, Lidia (FC’s half-sister)

  Castro, Lina see Ruz González Castro, Manolo

  Castro, Pedro Emilio (FC’s half-brother)

  Castro, Ramón (FC’s brother)

  Castro, Raúl (FC’s brother) Plate; exile in Mexico; guerrilla war against Batista regime Plate; establishment of revolution; and USSR; elimination attempts; and PSP/ORI; and Che Guevara; meets the Pope; and intellectuals; power; visits GDR; possible successor to FC

  Casuso, Teresa “Teté”

  Catholicism; attitude to Cuban Revolution; Communist Party and; influence on FC; and opposition in Brazil; visit of John Paul II to Cuba

  caudillo

  CCDHRN

  CCPHD

  CEA

  Ceauşescu, Nicolae

  censorship

/>   Center for Social Studies (CES)

  Central America

  Centro de Estudios sobre América (CEA – American Studies Center)

  Centro de Estudios sobre Europa (European Studies Center)

  CEPAL

  Cervantes, Miguel de

  Céspedes, Carlos Manuel de

  Chase, Gordon

  Chávez, Hugo

  Chernenko, Konstantin

  Chibás, Eduardo

  Chibás, Raúl

  Chile

  China; Che Guevara’s leaning towards; trade with

  Chrétien, Jean

  Christian Liberation Movement

  Christianity see religion Christmas celebrations

  Christopher, Warren

  Church, Frank

  CIA; anti-Castro activities; assassination plots; and nuclear missile crisis; and President Kennedy’s assassination; Third World involvement

  Cienfuegos; Martí’s memorial Plate

  Cienfuegos, Camilo, Plate

  Cigar Aficionado

  Cimex

  cinema

  CIS

  civil liberties; see also democracy; freedom of opinion; human rights

  civil society

  civil war see guerrilla warfare Clark, Juan

  Clinton, Bill

  CNN News

  Coard, Bernard

  Colombia

  Colomé Ibarra, Abelardo

  Comecon

  Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDRs)

  Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)

  Communism; see also Communist Party of Cuba; Partido Socialista Popular; Partido Unido de la Revolución Socialista

  Communist Party of Cuba (PCC); attitude to Christianity; Fourth Congress (1991); Fifth Congress (1997); see also Granma (newspaper)

  Communist Youth (UJC)

  Confederación de Trabajadores de Cuba (CTC – Confederation of Cuban Workers); Sixteenth Congress (1989)

  Congo

  Congo (Brazzaville)

  Congress of Writers and Artists (1961)

  Constitutions: (1902); (1940); (1976); (1992); (2002)

  Conte Agüero, Luís

  Corinthia (yacht)

  corruption

  Cortázar, Julio

  Costa Rica

  Costello, Frank

  Coubre explosion

  Council for Mutual Economic Aid (Comecon)

  CPSU; Twenty-Seventh Congress (1986)

  Crahan, Margaret

  crime

  Cruz, Maria Elena

  CTC see Confederación de Trabajadores de Cuba

  Cuba: struggle for independence; declared “Socialist state”; development of national identity; denied right of selfdetermination; identified by US as part of “axis of evil”; political future; see also Cuban Revolution; Batista y Zaldívar, Fulgencio; Grau San Martín, Ramón; Prio Socarrás, Carlos; and individual topics e.g. economy

  Cuban American National Foundation (CANF)

  Cuban central bank see Cuban National Bank

  Cuban Commission for Human Rights (CCPHD)

  Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation (CCDHRN)

  Cuban Committee for Democracy

  Cuban Council (Concilio Cubano)

  Cuban exiles; anti-Castro activities; FC’s fund-raising, Plate 9; links with assassination of John F. Kennedy; and refugees

  Cuban Film Institute (ICAIC)

  Cuban National Bank

  Cuban Patriotic Council

  Cuban Revolution: birth of; establishment; ethical standards; laws; popular attitudes to, (see also political dissent)

  Cuban Studies

  Cuban Trade Union Federation (CTC) see Confederación de Trabajadores de Cuba

  Cubapetróleo

  Cubela, Rolando

  cuentapropistas

  cultural congresses

  cultural policy

  Custodio, Isabel

  Czechoslovak Communist Party

  Czechoslovakia

  Daniel, Jean

  Debray, Régis

  democracy, FC’s understanding of

  Dennison, Robert

  development policy; see also Third World

  Diario de la Marina

  Díaz, Jesús

  Díaz-Balart, Lincoln

  Díaz-Balart, Mirta

  Díaz-Balart, Rafael

  Díaz Lanz, Pedro Luis

  Dirección General de Inteligencia (DGI)

  Directorio Revolucionario (DR)

  Dobrynin, Anatoly

  Domínguez, Jorge I.

  Dominican Republic

  Donovan, James

  Dorticós Torrado, Osvaldo

  Dostoevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich

  DR

  Draper, Theodore

  drug-trafficking

  Dubcek, Alexander

  Dulles, Allen

  Dulles, John Foster

  Durán, Alfredo

  East German Socialist Unity Party (SED)

  Eastern Bloc; and emigration to Florida; collapse

  Echeverría, José Antonio

  Eckstein, Susan

  Economist, The

  economy: after war of independence; Batista regime; FC promises reform; after the revolution; embargo by US; Che Guevara in charge of; after Guevara; rectificación period,; military and; período special; dollarization (1993 onwards); future

  Ecuador

  education; see also literacy

  Edwards, Jorge

  Edwards, Sheffield

  Eisenhower, Dwight D.

  Ejército Juvenil de Trabajo (Young Labor Army)

  El Salvador

  El Uvero

  Elena Mederos Foundation

  emigration,; (1994) Elián González affair

  energy consumption; see also oil supplies

  Engels, Friedrich

  Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

  Erickson, Robert B.

  Escalante, Aníbal

  Escambray Mountains, counterrevolutionary groups

  Escuela Latinoamericana de Medicina

  Espín, Vilma

  Esquivel, Alfred “Chino”

  Esterline, Jacob

  ETECSA

  Ethiopia/Somalia conflict

  EU; Andrei Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought

  European Studies Center (Centro de Estudios sobre Europa)

  Exner, Judith

  Falklands War

  FAR see Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias

  FBI

  Federación Estudiantil Universitaria (FEU)

  Fernández, Pablo Armando

  Fernández Caral, Óscar

  Fernández-Ferrer, Alina (FC’s daughter), Plate

  Fernández-Ferrer, Orlando

  Fernández Pujals, Leopoldo

  fidelismo

  Financial Times

  Finca Mañacas (Palm Farm), Plate

  First National Catholic Congress (1959)

  First National Congress of Education and Culture (Havana 1971)

  Fischetti, Charlie

  Fischetti, Rocco

  FitzGerald, Desmond

  Flynn, Errol

  Ford, Gerald

  foreign investment see joint ventures

  foreign policy: Che Guevara as spokesman; see also Latin America; Third World policy; and individual countries

  Franco, Francisco

  Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

  Franqui, Carlos

  FRD (Revolutionary Democratic Front)

  freedom of opinion

  Fuentes, Carlos

  Fuentes, Norberto

  Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias (FAR)

  Fujimori, Alberto

  G-2, secret police

  Gadea, Hilda

  Gagarin, Yuri

  Gaitán, Gloria

  Gaitán, Jorge Eliécer

  Gambino, Carlo

  gangsterismo

  García Márquez, Gabriel, Plate

  García Olivares, Julio

  Garrison, Jim

  Gaviata


  GDR: opinions on revolutionary government; and Che Guevara; developing tensions between Cuba and passim, FC visits; Honecker’s visits to Cuba; and Cuban emigration; on Alpha; on housing situation in 1987; collapse; see also ADN news agency

  general strikes

  Genovese, Vito

  Germany

  Giancana, Salvatore “Momo”

  glasnost

  Gobrecht, Horst

  Gómez, René

  Gómez Santos, Isidoro

  González, Elián

  González, Felipe

  González, María Antonia

  Gorbachev, Mikhail

  Grabendorff, Wolf

  Gramsci, Antonio

  Granma (“Grandmother” – boat)

  Granma (“Grandmother” – newspaper)

  Grass, Günther

  Gratius, Susanne

  Grau San Martín, Ramón

  Grechko, Andrei

  Grenada

  Gromyko, Andrei

  Guantánamo naval base

  Guardia, Antonio de la

  Guardia, Patricio de la

  “Guardién” (FC’s dog)

  Guatemala; training camp for Bay of Pigs invasion

  Guerra, Eutimio

  guerrilla warfare; civil war against Batista regime, Plates; see also Latin America; Third World policy

  Guevara, Aleida see March, Aleida

  Guevara, Alfredo

  Guevara, Ernesto “Che”, Plate; FC’s relationship with; guerrilla war against Batista regime; establishment of revolution; attempts to eliminate; in charge of economy and foreign policy; theoretician of the new man concept,; and PSP; and intellectuals; decline; death; state funeral; martyr and cult figure

  Guillán, Nicolás

  Guinea

  Guinea-Bissau

  Gutiérrez Menoyo, Eloy

  Haiti

  Halpern, Samuel

  Hamburg Institute of Latin American Studies

  Hammarskjøld, Dag

  Hart, Armando

  Harvey, William

  Haubrich, Walter

  Havana: FC’s education at Belén (Bethlehem) College; associations of Hotel Nacional with Mafia; Echeverria’s attack on presidential palace Plate; capture; FC’s victory parade Plate; appearance in 1990s

  Havana interrogation

  Havana University

  Havana Yacht Club

  Hawkins, Jack

  health system

  Hegel, G. W. F.

  Helms, Jesse

  Helms-Burton Act

  Hemingway, Ernest

  Henkel, Hans-Olaf

  Hermanos al Rescate (Brothers to the Rescue)

  Hermida, Ramón

  Hernández, Francisco

  Hernández, Melba

  Hesse, Hermann

  Heyser, Richard S.

  Hinckle, Warren

  hispanidad

  Hoffmann, Bert

  Holy Week celebrations

  Honecker, Erich

  Hoover, J. Edgar

  Horowitz, Irving L.

  housing

  Houston, scuttling of

 

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